Fwd: [Redbadbear] Musings by a Marxist Poet

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Dear Hunter and others,

Please send this out to other lists you may be on.

Thanks
sam




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From: edpickersgill <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Redbadbear] Musings by a Marxist Poet

Sam Friedman: 
Musings by a Marxist poet 
on my craft as thought and as intervention


Introduction

I spent much of my life as a non-poet activist and Marxist—until one day in the mid-1980s, at a time of political doldrums and relative disconnectedness between me and activism. I was commuting to NY City by train when my new-born Muse bit me with a highly-political poem about the race between nuclear holocaust and our overthrowing capitalism. (The poem appears in the Introduction to my book of political poems, Seeking to Make the World Anew [Friedman, 2008a]). Over the next year or so, occasional poems came to me, and I wrote them and edited them some, and showed them to people—and I grew to realize they were useful to other people in various ways. 
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